We Tried Ikea’s Famous Swedish Meatball Recipe | Copycat Recipe Taste Test | MyRecipes
Comin' at you with another copycat recipe.
Today it's IKEA's famous meatballs.
These Swedish style meatballs are all the rage
and fortunately for us IKEA has shared the recipe.
I thought this would be a fun one to try,
and my family needs dinner tonight, so let's get goin'.
First off the recipe starts with European measurements.
If anything else, I can go ahead
and do that math for you.
So it's calls for 500 grams of beef mince.
Okay, that's slightly over like 1.1 pounds of ground beef.
250 grams of pork mince.
That tells me it's about a half a pound.
First step is to mix those things together.
Next it calls for one onion finely minced.
It doesn't say what kind of onion,
it doesn't say how big the onion is.
I'm sticking with about a cup of finely chopped white onion.
One egg, I've got that.
I can read that.
And then one clove of garlic, it says crushed or minced.
I'm gonna assume I can use this for crushed.
100 grams of bread crumbs.
Google tells me that is like .44 cups.
So I'm just gonna do a little shy of a half a cup.
Okay so you mix this together,
and then it says to add five tablespoons of whole milk.
Generous salt and pepper.
Just evenly sprinkle it over the surface of the meat,
that's what I would do.
Now we mix and we roll it into small balls.
Normally my meatballs like for pasta
are about the size of a golf ball,
I'm gonna do about half that.
I'm going to roll this up to see how many we get, brb.
I made 33 meatballs,
and you are supposed to chill them for two hours,
just to help them hold together
when you go to fry them in the pan.
The recipe just says to heat the oil,
doesn't say what kind of oil, I've got some olive oil
so that's what I'll go with.
Okay we're going to cover them and then finish them
in the oven after we brown that at 180 degrees Celsius.
I don't know what that it.
180 degrees Celsius is 356 degrees Fahrenheit.
I preheated my oven to 350.
I had a feeling it was somewhere in that vicinity.
My oil looks good,
and I'm just gonna go in with my meatballs.
(sizzling)
You just wanna keep flippin' them 'til
they're brown all over.
This is where the chilling comes into play,
because then they'll hold their shape better
when they're fried.
(sizzling)
So maybe I'm busted,
I didn't do the full two hours.
All right, so when you get your meatballs good and brown
I'm going to (drops meatballs) whoop.
I'm gonna finish these off and then cover them
and bake them for 30 minutes, and then we'll make the sauce.
All right, while the meatballs bake
we're going to make the sauce right here in the skillet.
I'm just going to wipe it clean.
(wiping)
And we'll just use the same skillet.
It'll have a little bit of good flavor in the bottom.
We need 40 grams of butter, this whole stick is 113 grams.
That's too much math.
Hey Google, how many ounces are in 40 grams?
40 grams is equal to 1.411 ounces.
Two tablespoons would be two ounces,
so it's a little less than, just like
one and a half tablespoons.
But just melting butter and we're going to make
a little bit of a roux in there.
So that was about four teaspoons,
so I'm going to do four to five teaspoons of flour.
So you want equal parts butter and flour
when you're making a white sauce.
I forgot to mention that I have never
had IKEA's meatballs
at IKEA.
I've only been to IKEA two or three times.
And when I was there, I definitely didn't get
the Swedish meatballs, nobody told me.
Sure I got something like a sandwich,
or a burger, or something.
I just didn't know I was goin' to IKEA for their food.
(stirring)
I mean I was impressed by their cafeteria, but who knew.
And then we need 150 milliliters
of vegetable stock and beef stock.
Fortunately on our measuring cup it has milliliters.
Okay I've got my flour and butter cooking,
now I'm going to whisk in my broth.
I only had vegetable broth, but I do have beef stock.
Okay so this will thicken when it comes up to a simmer.
So we need 150 milliliters of thick double cream.
I assume that means heavy cream.
Heavy heavy cream is heavier than our whipping cream.
Maybe I'll add a little less so that it will thicken.
And then we're gonna add a teaspoon of Dijon,
and two teaspoons of soy sauce.
Gonna let that come together,
and the meatballs are almost done.
We're about to put these two things together
and I'm about to taste my first IKEA meatball.
30 minutes later here are our meatballs.
So to serve these they suggest
like a creamy mashed potato or boiled potatoes.
Listen, I don't have that, so we're just gonna eat them
as is with a salad for dinner.
Okay, meatball,
now sauce.
Feel like my sauce probably
was supposed to be a lil' thicker.
Maybe because my American measurements are off.
How did I do?
I mean, pretty good.
(biting)
(chewing)
What's not to like about a juicy meatball
and a creamy sauce?
(tapping fork)
(chewing)
The sauce is really good.
As it has sat, the flavors have come together
and it's really nice.
It's like the perfect bite of meatloaf
with like, this gravy.
I could see how it would be really good
with some mashed potatoes.
I mean most of the time I've just had
Swedish meatballs like at a party,
as an appetizer with a toothpick.
So yeah, I mean IKEA's Swedish meatballs
are a little underrated, and if there's anything else
from IKEA that I need to try, please let me know.
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I guess I'll be eatin' some meatballs.
Ikea’s meatballs are nearly as popular as their elegant and affordable furniture. A mainstay in their store cafeterias and available frozen for home, they reportedly sell over a billion Swedish meatballs every year. Now that they’ve released the official recipe to their meatballs and cream sauce, Nicole had to try them at her home kitchen. So how easy are they to cook, and how do they taste? Let Nicole be the judge. #Ikea #Meatballs #recipes #StayHome #WithMe Get the article "IKEA Shared Their Swedish Meatball Recipe So You Can Make Them at Home" here: https://www.myrecipes.com/news/coronavirus-ikea-meatball-recipe Subscribe to MyRecipes ►►https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBsi0gbfoSsuczN8rUM5P2Q?sub_confirmation=1 CONNECT WITH MyRecipes Web: http://www.myrecipes.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/My_Recipes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/myrecipes/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/welldonefood/ ABOUT MyRecipes MyRecipes.com features the largest collection of professionally-tested recipes online from food experts at the magazines and cookbooks you love and trust--including Cooking Light, Southern Living, Sunset, Coastal Living, Real Simple, and more. We Tried Ikea’s Famous Swedish Meatball Recipe | Copycat Recipe Taste Test | MyRecipes